Re: unicode html

Sybren Stuvel wrote:
Jim enlightened us with:
Ah, but I cannot change it. It is not my machine and the folks who
own the machine perceive that the charset line that they use is the
right one for them.

Well, _you_ are the one providing the content, aren't you?
? This site has many people operating off of it (it is
sourceforge-like) and the operators (who are volunteers) are kind
enough to let us use it in the first place. I presume that they think
the charset line that they use is the one that most people want.
Probably if they changed it then someone else would complain.

Sounds like they either don't know what they are talking about, or use
incompetent software. With Apache, it's very easy to give every
directory its own default character encoding header.
I am operating under constraints. Asking the operators of the site has
led to the understanding that I must work with the charset parameter
that I have. That is, I have an environment in which I must work, and
whether you or I think the people providing the service should do it
differently doesn't matter. I replied originally because I thought I
could give an example of HTML entities providing a way that I can solve
the problem that is entirely under my control.

Unfortunately, the <meta> tag idea also does not fly: see
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html in section 5.2.2 where it
states that in a contest the charset parameter wins.

I assume that with "the charset parameter" you mean "the HTTP header",
as the <meta> tag also has a "charset parameter".
AIUI "charset parameter" is the language of the HTML standard that I
referred to. For the meta tag, I at least would use "charset
attribute".

My only point is that things are complicated

Call me thick, but from my point of view they aren't.
;-)

Jim

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